Cooking-pan.



No. 894,118. PATENTED JULY 21, 1908. B. GOMPSTON.

COOKING PAN.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 2a, 1906.

STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' BELLE COMPSTON, or HOMESTEAD, PENNSYLVANIA.

cooinNG-rANI To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BELLE COMPSTON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Homestead, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Cooking-Pans, of which the f0 lowing is a specification, reference being had therein to t e accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to-certain new and .useful improvements in cooking utensils, the

which will more readily appear as the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction to be hereinafter more fully described and then specifically pointed-out in the'ap nded claims.

Referring to the rawing forming art of this specification, like numerals of re erence designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which 1 'Figure 1 is a plan of my improved cookin utensil, and Fig. 2 isa cross sectional'v'iew taken on the line 00-2: of 1. j

a To put my invention into practice, I construct my improved utensil of a receptacle 1 having slanting-sides 2, carrying a conventional form ofhandle 3. The rece tacle 1 is provided with partitions 4 and 5 ormed at right angles to one another, thereby. dividing the receptacle l into four compartments 6.

In order to give strength to the receptacle,

the partitions 4 and 5 are preferabl made of reater thickness than the side wa s and the bottom, as clearly shown in Fig. '2. The slanting sides 2 ofthe receptaclecentrally of the partitions 4 and'5 arebent to form spouts 7 whereby the contents of each compartment can be readily poured from the rece tacle.

My im rovedutensil isiparticular y adapted as a flying pan and boiler, wherein eatables can be independently fried. or cooked and liquids separ'atelyboiled. Attention is directed to the fact that the upper edges of the partitions 4-5 are in the Specification 01. Letters Patent.

' Application filed November 26, 1906. Serial No. 346,088.

- other and wit Patented. July 21, 1908.

same plane as the upperedge of the side wall e pan which is an essential and im ortant feature of. theconstruction, as t ese partitions thus serve as a support for a lid or cover which it may be desired to so shift or position on the an. that the food in one compartment 6 be covered and at the same time the food in another compartment 6 be uncovered. If these partitions projected above the side walls 2, this advantage would be nullified, and, obviously, if the partitions were of less height than the wall 2 of Y the pan, the vapors rising from the food in one compartment would have free access into the other compartments. .With the partitions constructed as above described,

owever, any one or all of the compartments may be covered by a single lid, and the shifting of such lid to one side of the pan so as to partially uncover one or more compartments, still leaves the lid firmly supported to effectually cover the'remaining compartment or compartments.

The cooking utensil can be readily stamped from metal or cast therefrom, and I do not care to confine myself to the size or number of compartments formed in the utensil.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an article of manufacture, a one piece cookin utensil embodying a bottom and integral andle andslanting side walls, and two dividing partitionsintegral with each the said partitions extending at right angles to each other being of the same height throughout and separating the chamber of the utensil into four equal size substantially triangular compartments, the said partitions being of greater thickness than the thickness the bottom and side walls,-

of the outer side wall of each compartment BELLE OOMPSTON.

Witnesses H. 0. Evan,

MAX H. Snonovrrz.

to form a plurality of independent pouring i 

